123: Planting the Seeds 1

Planting the Seeds 1

"Not even the people who received the Blessing of the Goddess could heal something like this," one of the soldiers said. "Why would you allow her to go near the young captain?"1

"Isn't it obvious? It was the young captain who agreed to her request!"

"Aigo! Even in this situation, the young captain is still thinking of sleeping with a woman?"

"How could he not? Did you see her face when she fainted? She was a beauty!"

"An absolute beauty."

"I have never seen someone so beautiful!"

"Hey, her hair is different too."

"I heard it was because of the sadness."

"Huh?"

"Her hair turned white because of her parent's death. Grief could change everything."

"Shhh…. she is about to start. We should just watch."

Raulio sighed as he listened to the whispers of the other soldiers. When Rosie told everyone that there was a possibility that she could heal the young captain, no one actually believed her. How could she heal someone who was affected by the dark curse? Everyone, including Raulio, thought that the Young Miss was talking nonsense.

Even the Blessed one cannot heal it. How could she do it? This was unheard of before!

He glanced at the curtains that covered the light from the window. Rosie instructed everyone to block the lights and light some candles instead. Apparently, she needed to do this while it was dim.

Obviously, this raised Raulio's eyebrows. At one point, he started thinking about the possibility that the one who wanted the captain dead was the young miss. Was she doing this to completely kill the young captain?

However, this theory did not make any sense.

First and foremost, this was the first time that the two have met. Miss Rosie does not have any reason to hurt him. Second, she is a merchant. Why would she ruin her reputation just to kill someone she does not even know?

The two candles on each side of the bed attracted his attention. Rosie only wanted two candles. She wanted one on the right side of the bed and the other on the left. It was the only source of light inside the room.

He then looked at everyone else, his sense alert. He was ready to defend the young captain if Rosie tried to do anything funny.

Luckily for them, Rosie agreed to let them watch the process. This somehow lessened his suspicions. But still, Raulio chose not to lower his guard.

"While I was traveling, I met a master who knew how to do it," Rosie said. As always, there was a white cloth on her face. "He taught me how to remove the curse by absorbing it. However, I cannot guarantee that this will completely remove the curse from the captain. I am just a novice." Rosie looked at the sweating captain.

Right now, Captain Esmael already woke up and was actually the one who gave her permission to try and heal him. Raulio actually understood that the captain only did this because of the pain. At this point, the captain would agree to anything. He would hold a knife and maybe even bleed himself using that knife just to get rid of the pain.

The young captain was desperate.

Still, Raulio thought this was wrong. This was blasphemous! How could someone who is not a member of the Lux Family claim that they could do something that the Lux Family could not?

The Goddess was all-powerful! She chose to give the Blessing of the light to the Lux Family so that they could heal people.

"You look troubled," the older soldier murmured next to him. "Must be thinking about that Blessed family again?"

Raulio elbowed the man in response. "Shut it."

"What?" the man chuckled.

"This is blasphemy."

"Blasphemy?" again, another chuckle escaped the man's lips. "What are you talking about? The Blessed family no longer does what they were meant to do. Right now, the only people that receive their light are the nobles and the kings. Did you really think that this was the Goddess' will?

"Hmph!" Raulio heard that this soldier had just lost his daughter to some disease a couple of months ago, so he understood the man's sentiments. People in this part of the continent wanted the Blessed family to visit them too, but just as the soldier said, they stopped this practice a long time ago.

There were many excuses used to avoid their responsibility. At first, the people still believed them, but now? Many were thinking that perhaps the Lux Family wasn't as holy as they had originally thought.

"She's starting," Raulio heard the man whisper and everyone held their breath. There was nothing but silence inside the room. Then the captain started trembling.

"What is going on?"

"Shhhh— look!"

"There was a black smoke!"

Everyone saw black smoke slowly seep out of the captain's skin. Then, it gathered towards Rosie's palms.

"What— " Raulio widened his eyes. How could this happen? The woman's hand absorbed the smoke! He immediately looked at Rosie's face. She looked pale and weak.

It did not even take a minute before Rosie started vomiting blood.

"Our young miss is exhausted now," one of the merchants who accompanied Rosie spoke. "This is the only thing that she can do. Hopefully it will help with the pain but… this might not be enough to completely remove the curse." The female merchant then held Rosie and helped her stand up.

"Was it really like that?" Raulio asked. He looked at the captain and just as the woman said, the captain no longer looked like he was in pain. The color on his face had returned and it looked like he was sleeping peacefully.

"Yes. Sadly, the Young Miss was not able to learn a lot from that hermit. The hermit only traveled with us for a couple of weeks. Then he disappeared one night, never to be seen again. Ah… please excuse the Young Miss. She needs to rest now as we will be leaving this place and continue with our travels tomorrow."

Raulio nodded. It seemed that they needed to observe everything to make sure that Miss Rosie had actually healed the young captain and did not harm him instead.

"Eh? It seems that the curse that slowly spread inside the captain's body has stopped spreading." The physician said. "How could something like this happen!?"

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